The basic foundation of our culture today is moral relativism.

And I call that a myth, because what it has in common with a myth is that myths have no real correspondence, ultimately, to objective truth.

In other words, we are basing our civilization and our culture on a moral concept that can't possibly be true.

Judges 176 describes a time where everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

It's a good description of our own day too, isn't it?

No matter how absurd someone's preference is, even if it goes against reason and nature,

we're not only told we must accept it, in some cases we're told we must celebrate it. That's

moral relativism. But as you just heard R.C. Sprole say, ultimately, that's a myth.

Welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.

Over the past few weeks, Dr. Sprawl has helped us consider the elements of a Christian life and worldview,

helping us be thinking Christians,

and today he will consider morality and ethics.

As this is the final message in the series, it's also the final time you can request this series

a blueprint for thinking, its study guide, and a special edition DVD of his significant series, The Consequences of Ideas,

when you give a gift of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. So I encourage you to request this

resource bundle for the final time while you still can. Here's Dr. Spraw on moral relativism

and ethics.

So far in our examination of the chief elements that are necessary to construct a Christian life and worldview,

we've considered briefly epistemology, the science of knowing how we come to knowledge at all, how do we discern what things are true and what are not. We've looked briefly also at the task of metaphysics,

which is man's attempt to probe those questions beyond what we can see and think and sense

with the rest of our empirical powers. And then we looked

at the character of God as being essential for understanding how we view the world and our lives.

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